Why do people think that it is egregious that a woman chose to have 14 children?\u00a0 They don’t.\u00a0 What they are angry about is that they have to pay for her bad behavior.\u00a0 Obviously part of her decision to have 14 children was because she knew that our society would take care of them.<\/p>\n
But lets get some perspective here. The same people who are aghast over Octomom don’t fret about Medicare.\u00a0 Even though Medicare is roughly the same thing as Octomom.\u00a0 Medicare takes much more money from working people than Octomom and the gang of 14 ever will and gives it to old people.\u00a0 Old people who in many cases still have houses cars and assets.\u00a0 If there is free money people will move towards it and away from work and thrift.\u00a0 Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps and all types of social welfare programs that tax money from some to give it to others have the same effect.\u00a0 Octomom is a visible sign of how corrupting a social welfare system can be but as long as there is a social welfare system there will be people like Octomom.\u00a0 And as the system gets more generous there will be more people like her.\u00a0 Octomom should be the poster girl for the Libertarians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why do people think that it is egregious that a woman chose to have 14 children?\u00a0 They don’t.\u00a0 What they are angry about is that they have to pay for her bad behavior.\u00a0 Obviously part of her decision to have 14 children was because she knew that our society would take care of them. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-o6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}